Chat Bots and Augmented Humans

"In the past, the bots I’ve made have primarily been a tool for exploring systems and culture. I feed the bot data or text and then design constraints around how it can recombine or augment that material to create insight, humor or strange robot poetry."

"Generally though, when we say 'bot,' we usually mean a generally harmless agent that acts on the behalf its creator in some fashion but has limited ambition and basic operations. But, is that all there is?"

"In other words, Victor practices what he preaches: he doesn’t use computers to build better mousetraps, but to explore and communicate ideas in a way that uniquely exploits the properties and possibilities of a programmable, dynamic, interactive medium."

Way's Notes

Wow!

Can you believe this is the 26th issue? That means I've been doing this for 6 months. Whoa! To me, that means Glitchet is legit (or liget?). In June it started with an enthusiastic group of ~130 subscribers and now it has ~520, and about 40% of you look at the email every week! That's pretty phenomenal, and I'm so glad you've enjoyed it as much as I've enjoyed putting it together. Here's to the next six months.

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